Lead, Performance & Resiliency Engineering (Senior VP/ED)

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Tampa (FL)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

41 hours ago

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Job summary

JP Morgan Chase in Tampa, Florida seeks an SVP/ED Performance & Resiliency Engineer to enhance latency, throughput and reliability for Merchant Services platforms. You will partner with application development teams and infrastructure/platform engineering to identify bottlenecks, implement durable fixes, and raise engineering standards through technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.

The role requires senior expertise in distributed systems reliability, strong

Qualifications

Senior experience in performance engineering for distributed systems and/or SRE-style reliability engineering in production.
Strong cloud/container background (AWS + Kubernetes/EKS; ECS exposure beneficial).
Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch or equivalent).
KEDA and/or Karpenter: large plus.
Akamai: strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, and work effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

Lead performance engineering efforts: load/stress/soak testing, capacity modeling, performance tuning, and regression prevention (KPIs, guardrails, and acceptance criteria).
Improve production readiness: observability (metrics/logs/traces/APM), actionable alerting, incident triage, and root-cause analysis leading to durable remediation.
Strengthen resiliency patterns: timeouts/retries, circuit breakers, backpressure/rate limiting, graceful degradation, and failover readiness.
Drive safer releases via canary/progressive delivery and automated rollback patterns.
Optimize containerized workloads across EKS (primary) and ECS/other compute where applicable; drive autoscaling strategy and right-sizing.